Theme: #ThinkBigDiversity

The 2015 PROMISE Summer Success Institute (SSI), #ThinkBigDiversity, will be held on Saturday, August 15, 2015, 8:00 AM – 3:00 PM, with a pre-conference Dissertation House session on Thursday & Friday, August 13 – 14, 2015, and a Friday night August 14 “Sisters in the Dissertation House” Book Discussion, all at the Hotel at Arundel Preserve in Hanover, Maryland. This conference (business attire) provides professional development for new/incoming graduate students, continuing graduate students, postdoctoral fellows, early-career professors, and professionals in the region.

About the PROMISE SSI: Registration & Information

PROMISE SSI Full, Extended Agenda | Keynote Speaker & Panel Bios

Hotel, Campus Bus, Directions & Travel Information

Schedule at-a-glance

Date	Time	Event	Room
PROMISE 2015 SSI Venue: 7795 Arundel Mills Boulevard, Hanover, MD 21076 near BWI Airport
THURSDAY	Dissertation House – Pre-Conference (Separate Registration Required)
Thursday, August 13, 2015	5 PM – 12 AM	Dissertation House	Baltimore Room, 2^nd Floor

FRIDAY	Pre-Conference (Separate Registration Required)
Friday, August 14, 2015 Speakers: Wendy Carter-Veale, Ph.D.; Erin Golembewski, Ph.D.; Clancy Clawson, M.A.	8 AM – 12 AM	Dissertation House	Baltimore Room, 2^nd Floor
(Invitation only) Speaker: Renetta Tull, Ph.D.	6PM -8 PM	Speakers’ Dinner & Orientation	Washington Room, 2^nd Floor
Requires separate registration Speakers: Jennifer Bacon, Ph.D.; Shanna Smith, Ph.D.; Alexis Williams, Ph.D.; Sophoria Westmoreland, Ph.D.	8:30 PM – 10 PM	Sisters in the Dissertation House Book Discussion	Hotel Suite – Released only to registrants

SATURDAY	PROMISE Summer Success Institute (Main Conference) (RSVP before Aug 11, 2015)
Saturday, August 15, 2015	8AM – 3:00 PM	Full Program	2^nd Floor
Lead: Prof. Jennifer Joyner Speakers: Ken Venick, Sheryl Parks, Les Tripp, Mike Crabb, Mary Ann Hewitt, Allen Cox, Kylie-Ann Allen Delgado, Aaron Little, Brandon McClure	8AM – 9:00 AM	Financial Breakfast Expo Round Tables: Equity Mortgage Lending, Marshall Financial Group, British Investments Inc., Synergy Financial Group, Maryland Council on Economic Education, Maryland Coalition for Financial Literacy, Guidewell Financial Solutions, CCBC,SECU	Location: Ballroom Co-sponsors/Partners: CCBC, Council of Graduate Schools – Enhancing Financial Literacy Program
Speakers: Andrew Williams, Ph.D.; Christine Grant, Ph.D.; Sweeney Windchief, Ed.D.; Brian Burt, Ph.D.; Lydia Villa-Komaroff, Ph.D.; Patricia Ordóñez, Ph.D. (via Twitter); Tyrone Grandison, Ph.D.; Kaye Wise Whitehead, Ph.D.	9AM – 11:00 AM	Plenary Talk & Demo: Changing the “Face” of Robotics Mentoring Panel: Breaking resistance to networking, mentoring models, team-based collaboration, systems of thinking Introduction to #ThinkBigDiversity PhD/Doctoral Roll Call	Location: Ballroom, 2nd Floor Partners: Leveraged Empowerment, PNW-COSMOS AGEP-T
Mobile device(s) needed. Please bring laptops, cell phones, tablets. Coaches: Miryam Gerdine, MPH; Pamela Felder, Ph.D.; Autumn Reed, Ph.D.; Levon Esters, Ph.D.; Marquita Qualls, Ph.D.; Michael Penn, Ph.D.; Simon Levin, Ph.D.	11:30AM– 12:45 PM	#ThinkBigDiversity Hacking Diversity in STEM – All disciplines can participate. [No computer expertise required.]	Breakout rooms, 2^nd Floor 1) New/Incoming graduate students: Baltimore Room 2) Continuing students: Washington Room 3) PP&P postdocs/professors/professionals: Severn Room Co-sponsors/Partners: MIT Media Lab, MAP at Purdue, Gladstone Institutes, Entropia, Levin Lab at Princeton
Presiding: Janet Rutledge, Ph.D. Lunch Mentors: Maria Velez-Quinones, Ph.D; Joy Johnson, Ph.D., Keisha Macintosh Allen, Ed.D.; Anita Gopal, Ph.D., T. Sean Vasaitis, Ph.D., TaShara Bailey, Ph.D., Alexis Williams, Ph.D., Jocelyn Reader, Ph.D., Jesus Caban, Ph.D.; Shaun Gittens, Ph.D.	1:00PM – 2:30 PM	Lunch & Program Remarks: USM Sr. Vice Chancellor – Joann Boughmann, Ph.D. Acknowledgement of Partners: University of Maryland College Park, University of Maryland Baltimore, UMBC Remarks: Visiting Deans. Recognition of PhD Candidates	Location: Ballroom, 2nd Floor Primary Sponsor: The National Science Foundation
@PROMISE_AGEP, #ThinkBigDiversity	2:30PM – 3:00 PM	Tweet-up/Networking & Dessert Reception Book sales and signing Christine Grant: “Success Strategies from Women in STEM” Kaye Wise Whitehead: “Letters to My Black Sons” Jennifer Bacon: “Sisters in the Dissertation House”	Ballroom Terrace

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Published by Renetta Garrison Tull

Dr. Renetta Garrison Tull is the Vice Chancellor for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) at the University of California Davis. She previously served as Associate Vice Provost for Strategic Initiatives at The Graduate School at UMBC, and was Professor of the Practice in the College of Engineering & IT. She was Special Assistant to the Sr. Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs & Director of Graduate and Professional Pipeline Development for the University System of Maryland (12 institutions). She is the Founding Director of PROMISE: Maryland’s Alliance for Graduate Education and the Professoriate (AGEP) – http://www.umbc.edu/promise, and Co-PI for the USM LSAMP. Her research on global diversity in STEM continues, and she is an international speaker, covering nearly all continents, for groups and conferences such as the World Engineering Education Forum, the International Federation of Engineering Education Societies, and the Pacific Sciences Congress. Her personal website is: http://renettatull.wordpress.com. Connect with her on Twitter: @Renetta_Tull; https://twitter.com/Renetta_Tull View more posts